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John Steinbeck Changing Kino Analysis

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The pearl changed kino and the story by making kino more of a greedy person and makes the story more of a hunt to find a good price for the pearl. I think that John Steinbeck used the pearl to teach them a lesson by having the pearl make kino and Juna getting more distant from each other Juna knew that without the pearl kino would not be filled with so much greed kino also knew that the pearl was changing him ‘‘Kino was afraid as a man is afraid I know without knowing’’
John Steinbeck also tried to make kino go on a killing spree just to find a good price.

The pearl was changing kino because it made kino kill people he also grew more apart from juana before kino had the pearl he was more simple and closer to juana and was not asking
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